I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.